Time Out #290 - Pick Two

 It's time for another Pick Two challenge at Time Out. 

There are six options and you need to pick at least two to incorporate onto your card.  Please let us know which ones you picked in your description.

I picked repeat, weather and bold.  My repeat is the three umbrellas from MFT which are cut from bold paper and for the weather I used translucent paste through a raindrop stencil for the background. (You may have to zoom in to see them.) To fit all the umbrellas, I made a mini-slimline card.  I didn't have any kind of sentiment that would work so I generated one on the computer, outlining it with a black border to make it show up.  

I'd love to see your Pick Two in our gallery.

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The Flower Challenge #49 - Reminder

October is half over and that means it's time for the mid-month reminder cards at The Flower Challenge. It's our 4th birthday so there are prizes to be had for the winners.  Check out the blog to see details.  

The circles on my card are subtle but they work well with the flowers.

I used transparent embossing paste through a swirl stencil on gray cardstock. My daughter had some paint chip like paper in a variety of colors that she used for an art project and gave them to me.  I picked out some shades of purple and green and made the bouquet from Altenew's Garden Picks.  I couldn't decide how to add a sentiment so I left it off.

I hope you'll check out what the Design Team and our guest designer Colleen Balija have made.  Their wonderful cards will surely inspire you to join the challenge.

CAS Stencil - April Reminder.

There's still time for you to get out your embossing pastes/gels and join the challenge at CAS Stencil.

I hope you'll head on over to the blog to see what fabulousness the Design Team has for you but first take a look at my card as this month's guest designer.

I colored my translucent paste with - you guessed it! - Wild Honey Distress Ink and put it through my Funky Fossil stencil onto yellow cardstock.  It didn't have enough color variation so I added a little Rusty Hinge to what was left on my mat a gave it a quick once over.  While my panel was drying, I cut the PTI Polaroid die ,stamped the RC sentiment and colored the bee with Zigs, adding WOS to his wings.  I put it all together on a top folding card, popping the bee up with foam.

I hope to see you in the gallery.

CAS(E) This Sketch #251, Little Red Wagon #423 and CAS Mix-Up December

I have a fun little card for you today that fits in three different challenges.  The starting point was the sketch from CAS(E) This Sketch.

I turned it on it's side and made this.

The little snowball rolling hedgehog is a PB image that I borrowed from Michele.  I embossed a strip of cardstock with my fabric folder that I think looks like drifted snow that he rolled his ball through.  I added snow with embossing paste through a SSS stencil and then stamped the sentiment from My Craft Spot (closed).

The Little Red Wagon is looking for Christmas Critters so I'm sending him off to them and also to CAS Mix-Up because I stamped, dry embossed, and used embossing paste with a stencil.

I'm off to a Christmas lunch with my Lunch Ladies (high school classmates) today.  It will be a fun time of reminiscing and sharing.

Thanks for dropping by.  I hope you have something special planned for today too.

CAS Mix-up - June

I had a card in my "Made, Not Posted" file that is perfect for the CAS Mix-up Challenge.

I colored texture paste with Distress Ink and spread it through a Heidi Swapp stencil..  The sentiment is from SSS.  The requirements for the challenge are:

My choices are heat embossing and die cutting.

Thanks for dropping by.

The Flower #7, CAS Watercolor and CAS Mix-Up

Have you ever gotten your challenges mixed up?  I made this card thinking it would be for both CAS Watercolor and The Flower Challenge. Then as I began writing my post I realized (duh) it's not watercolored.  It's still good for The Flower Challenge, though.

I used an embossing border for the horizontal panel and added the flowers from Altenew stamped in their inks.  See the sketch below.

Then I saw this card from Bonnie, and told her I was going to CASE it and I did.  This one will go to CAS Watercolor.

I used embossing paste through a stencil on my card base.  While it was drying, I die cut the flower from Memory Box and watercolored it with DIs, adding a few splatters.  I inlaid the die cut back into the panel on the card.  And you know what that means?  This card is also good for CAS Mix-Up because it has stamping, inlaid die cut, embossing paste and watercoloring.  

While I was doing this I decided to do another card, changing it up a little. It's not for any challenge.  Just another sympathy card to add to my depleted stash.

I watercolored this flower from SSS with Zigs.  Instead of embossing paste, I stenciled the background with gray ink.

I think that's good for today.  Thanks for dropping by.

Time Out #71

I guess 'glitter' must be a popular Christmas card item because there are over 200 entries at Time Out.  I'm adding mine too.

I masked off the center of the card, put embossing paste through a stencil, covered it with gold glitter powder and heated it.  The sentiment was stamped and embossed with the same glitter.

I almost have my cards ready to send out.  I may need a few more but there are challenges coming up that will fix that.  I'd better get going on them though.  Their deadlines are fast approaching while I'm doing other things.

Inspired by All the Little Things #33 and Loll's Tags Day 11

While the photo inspiration for Inspired by All the Little Things appears rather vintage to me I went with a more mod interpretation.

The trees from MFT are colored with Zigs and a little WOS was applied to the star.  The sentiment is from SSS.

Now for a more glamorous creation, I  have a tag for Loll's 12 Tags of Christmas, inspired by this one on day eleven.

I used the same stencil with embossing paste and gold glitter powder.   I didn't have a wreath so added a red foil ornament instead.

Here's a close-up so you can see the shine and the sentiment.  I love the look of this so much I plan to do an entire card front with the same stencil.

I'm supposed to be sewing on a quilt but I have seven finished cards on my desk and thought I'd better post this one at least.  The rest will come later. I hope you come back to take a peek.

Merry Monday #221

I have another card for Merry Monday today.  It has to have a winter activity on it

I used to go cross country skiing before these old bones started disliking winter and we started going south for the winter so I included skis from PTI.  Snowflakes and hills stenciled with embossing paste are covered with glitter.  Someone is going to be unhappy when they open this card. ;)   but it looks so good.

Thanks for dropping by.

Happy Birthday, Michele

This is a 'just for fun' post to honor my friend Michele Ferguson of I Card Everyone on her birthday today.  When Michele came to visit a couple of weeks ago, I had a surprise for her - a recently purchased set Brushos to play with.  I did the work that day and turned it into a card for her.

I was inspired by this card from Heather Telford.  I used translucent embossing paste through a stencil and before removing it sprinkled on the Brushos.  I love the way it turned out.

Happy Birthday my dear friend.

Merry Monday #196 and Inkspirational # 104

It's been a productive day today and I have a couple of cards to show you. Merry Monday is asking for a card in black, white and silver/gray.

I started with some Soft Stone cs and used a SSS stencil and embossing paste to add snow.  A torn piece of Neenah adds a drift and place for the sentiment from PTI, which is also where the skis came from.  The sentiment and ski bindings are embossed silver, which I have as much trouble photographing as I do gold.   

Keeping with a similar color scheme, I have a card for Inkspirational, who want a card in pink and gray.  

I only took this picture 6 times with different settings trying to get it to come close to the actual color.  No amount of photo editing was helping the situation.   This one is pretty close.  The background is Soft Stone cs again, with a couple of other grays as accents.  PTI's Vintage Linen flower is embossed in white on watercolor paper and painted with DI.  I made a card like this for an earlier challenge and missed the deadline.  It had a different color base but I like it so much I recreated it for this challenge.

That's enough for today.  I have more cards ready for tomorrow.

Make it Monday #239, Tic Tac Toe #4, AAA #58 and W & W photo

The mojo is flowing and I have a ton of cards made.  Well, really only 7  but it seems like a lot.  I'm only going to post three of them today.  Make It Monday has an interesting challenge to customize your patterned paper with a video by Lizzie Jones.  Here's my take on it.

The background paper is part of a pack that I got in my very first order at Papertrey Ink over 4 1/2 years ago.  I took the stamp from Beautiful Brushstrokes Additions and lined it up with the pattern and stamped it in SSS Surf Blue.  The die and sentiment are also from that set.  For a little pizzazz I added some sequins.  The pattern is a little more subtle IRL but it wouldn't show on screen until I adjusted the exposure.

I've been wanting to play at the Stamping Smiles Tic Tac Toe challenge and it only took me to the fourth challenge to get something made.  I used the middle row down.

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Using Black Soot Distress Ink, I inked up the stencil by Winnie and Walter from my Stamp of Approval box.  Casual Fridays made the die set for SOA and I cut 3 layers in black and one in purple foil.  I'm not much of a sequin person but since the challenge called for them, I put them on which also makes this card eligible for the challenge at AAA - sequins.

Next up is my card for Winnie and Walter's 2nd Birthday Bash - inspiration image challenge hosted by Taheerah.  While I love the painting, I drew my inspiration from that lovely pillow on the sofa.

Stenciling again, this time with colored embossing paste on pink paper. This is as dark as I could get Black Soot to do.  The dies are from Sugar Pea designs and the sentiment is from Winnie & Walter.  I stamped and embossed the 'happy' onto vellum and cut around it.

I think that's enough for you to take in on one blog post.  I thank you for visiting and making it through to the end.